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geoff@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Geoff Wong) writes:
>s913631@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Darren James Reed) writes:
>>s931537@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (BIGGLES _pilot_) writes:
>>>I'm planning to buy a Pentinum System with 16M ram, 540 plus HD, Tseng
>>>lab W32P 2M PCI video board, 15' XGA monitor, CD-ROM drive ... 

Get a better mon for your card, TrueColor under 1024x768 is OK.
As for CD-ROM drive, get a dual speed (eg. 562-B).

>>The quick answer: 0MB for Linux and use the entire HD for NetBSD.
>>X11R6... shared libs... complete... actually works... superior

>Actually what you're saying about Linux is incorrect; really ...
>While NetBSD may be more of a "true" Unix (especially BSD Unix);

Consider these: 1) local gurus run it, 2) you can get it easily

>compiling and running both BSD and Sys V software.

Have you ever forgotten to swap the args when changing bcopy to memcpy? ;)

>I suggest with your system a good 180 Meg partition will give you room
>to move (ie. download lots of junk) and a 20 Megs swap partition with
>your 16 Megs of memory would be very nice. With Linux you can

I'm using 210Mb part, 16Mb RAM with 30Mb swap (shared with Windoze).
Works fine, though I do want to get more disk space... :)

>also run DOSEmu (dos emulator) and Wine (Window's emulator).

DOSEmu is awesome!  They're working on full DPMI (for BCC, Windoze).
Wine isn't ready yet.  Once I asked them why not port WABI, they said
it's got many precompiled stuff, making it nonportable.

>Depends on how much you want to use DOS really; after installing a
>pre-emptive multi-tasking system with a decent compiler etc
>you find you only use DOS to play games anyway.

Yeah, I made a mistake.  Now I've got 300Mb+ for games and only 30Mb
left for UNIX hacking. :)

As for the {Double,Drive}Space problem, there're 2 solutions for Linux:
  1) trash it and use Double, a file system independent compressor
  2) install Linux on UMSDOS file system, a file system on top of FAT

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